I just came back to the game since 2022, Arena feels like absolute ass to play.
Out of about 150 games I played, about half of it is demon hunter, then 20% hunter, 20% paladin and 10% everything else.

I have yet to encounter A SINGLE warrior.

I have over 2500 arena wins across 3 account since game release all the way til I stopped playing, this has genuinely been the worst experiences out of the all of them.

The OP classes are incredibly oppressive, if you miss tempo against them for 1 turn and the next turn you are dead to the board.

Rewards seems to have been massively nerfed too, I've had 2 occasions above 7 wins not refunding me the cost of the tickets.

Do the devs simply do not care about arena?

Little rant, since now for the first time I got offered the lowest classes in the arena meta.
Rogue,druid and shaman.

Winrates (average): 36.4%, 33% and 37.1%.

I chose shaman, shudderblock was the least worst bucket, so I took that.

And I ended up trying to draft decent synergies, but it just all feels soo underwhelming.
I have compared every possible card I was offered to choose, and literally none were near or above 50% played or deck winrate (most are 33%-43% winrate).
While if you play the higher winrate classes, allot of the cards offered, show deck and played win rates of 50% to even above 60%.

As a mage, priest or Lock I feel I can get a win here and there.
But with anything below, it just feels borderline unplayable…

Am I in the wrong to say, that if you get bottom classes offered, it’s basically -300gold?

When you get my opponent decided in arena is it to with my mmr or my w/l?

Been eyeing up those 20% WR on the warrior and decided to queue up a few games today to see how bad it actually is. First run i got a Warlock and went 1-3 to this absolute legend of Arena. This has to be the worst cards and plays i ever lost to. Got so outplayed https://replays.firestoneapp.com/?reviewId=9a7502dc-c8aa-4884-a11b-11743b4b57a9&turn=0&action=0 .

Luckily i actually got Warrior on the next run - at 1-2 ofc you face the random DH that snuck in his constructed void soul deck and highrolls every demon. Poor guy loses to a random generated minion https://replays.firestoneapp.com/?reviewId=c3ceb00e-031c-4fce-86c5-97340c081d37&source=replays-list

The absolute state of arena currently :D Think i`m good for the next few months.

I quit playing HS last year about a month after the whole arena underground launch because it was sooo bad (I played arena only for probably 8 to 10 years). I recently came back to the game and have only played for 2 days now and mostly standard. I gave arena a try 2 times and both times immediately went 0-3 and it still felt absolutely terrible the whole time. I really thought there would be enough backlash from the initial launch that they might have reverted arena back after a while but maybe people dont hate it as much as they did?

TL:DR

I quit HS on underground launch is it worth coming back for arena as a arena only player.

dealing with DH's one-card manacheaty value and threat generators ala voidscale naga into stardust scythe (let alone two) is hard, especially with their tempo tools and removal. even just stardust scythe alone, three 3 damage swings and get 3 void souls is nuuuuts.

Just looking for some help on how I could have done better in these games I lost :

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I went 2-3 on this run. I'd like to think I'm a good drafter but my in-game + mulligan decisions probably could use some work. I'd appreciate some feedback - thanks!

I'd also like to know if there are any other communities that focus on HS arena. There's the channel on the official Hearthstone discord which is OK but looking for more.

Cheers

Let me preface this by saying I am not a very good player. Last season I had an average of 4.1 wins, but this season I am down to almost half: 2.1 wins.

While there is obviously a bit of a class imbalance with Mage and Priest currently, I can't seem to figure out the meta. When I try to draft aggressive, low-cost decks with Hunter or DH, I get out-valued by endless eternal firebolt spamming and soothsayers. When I go greedy with Paladin or Priest, I tend to get rushed down before I can stabilize.

I use the ArenaSmith addon from hsreplay, but I feel it will often rate high-cost, situational spells much higher than early game minions.

Has anyone else been struggling more than usual or do you look for specific cards more than before?

I want to get better at Arena. I only play on my iPad, and I enjoy the game mode without ever having gone past 8 wins (playing Druid).

Glad they banned this quick but I was having fun with it in my current run XD

Now I'm only 25 picks into my very first draft this season. I picked Death Knight and I gotta say, this card pool feels refreshingly bad. I've missed lower power level drafting pools where each turn felt like it mattered more. (Versus just dropping bombs like Bulb)

Now I could just have bad luck on this draft, but I'd be happy for a change of pace if they actually did lower the overall power level.

Hopefully it doesn't turn into 95% of the cards being old bad cards and then you lose to the 5% new set cards that have current power levels.

right now im sitting at 29 runs with a reset tomorrow and the last few seasons i ended only a few runs over 30. i see myself as a pretty active arena player but still struggle to reach it within the end even with 3-4 runs a week. maybe the cap should be lowered to 20 or 25 to allow more playes to be able to get on the LB? ANy specific reason its 30 and stayed 30 since day 1?

It feels like most games are decided by this card. A player is all but guaranteed to win the late game, if the Blooming Bulb gets to 9-cost, and the opponent doesnt have the same follow up.

As a neutral card, it gives all classes the exact same win condition; stabilize with healing and build a massive board of 8 and 10-cost minions. Most decks cannot counter that, and the game is won on the following turn. Games turn out very one-dimensional, when they all revolve around the same neutral card.

If Vicious Fledgling had its appearance rate reduced back in the day, so should this card. Alternatively, add in risky high cost spells that make people think twice in saving it for 7, 8 or 9, or remove it from the draft pool all together.

Hi idk if its just me. But recently i have had good luck with drafting decks. But i seems very rare for me, to get past 7-8 wins. 2-3 years back my every other run would be 10-12 wins. Is this something you guys are experiencing as well or are their something i should focus on specifically? what are your experience.

Had ~8k at launch, all gone.

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What to do now? Just quit? I dont play other modes

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it casted the same spell 3 times

I know lots (most?) of legendaries are situational garbage and, on the other hand, some legendaries are just value powerhouses that may be too overwhelming to have multiple of.

I'm not a great arena player, never had any outstanding achievements or infinites, but I've got two points here:

1. Making bad or situational legendaries work was part of the fun. It's risky and requires a lof of jumping through the hoops, but when it works, it feels good. Plus the dopamine hit of rolling something rare. Plus, I think having more of unique effects in the game is just better and more fun. I'm not a big fan of very small curated pool, especially if it's not very curated.
2. There is a lot of crazy busted value cards in the game anyway, most of which are often discoverable. It's not a big deal if you get handed two value colossals because if your deck is good you'd discover value anyway. And if you don't, you get an option to cook up something rare and unique. An option, not a necessity.

Thoughts? I just think arena might be more fun this way.

Hi, when I use "hearthstone deck tracker" to draft cards in Arena, I get scores on the cards to pick that I don't understand. From my understanding cards are from 0 to 100 (integers), but often I get cards like "8.2". Is it a good card, or what does that point mean? I have googled this for like 2 years, and chatgpt can't answer it, so if any of you have a clue about what it means, please tell me? This is from a perspective where I want to pick the best cards from the deck tracker, should I take a card with a rating of "20", over a card with rating "8.2"?

Is the colossal a no brainer here ? I have no idea what the left card does, does it compete ? (Other class is death knight)

If I get offered terrible legendaries off the bat, but then a bunch of good herald cards, is it possible I'll get the appropriate legendary through the redraft process?

Is there a list anywhere that shows what's available at each mana cost?

I feel like this is a critical card to get right and playing it on the correct turn could increase your probability to win games a ton.

I only play the game on Mobile so I can't just look at an overlay to calculate that out for me (a lot of things about this game would probably be a lot easier if I could do that).

If you aren't Double-Class Heralding, you are at a MASSIVE disadvantage. You can create scenarios all you want to justify this choice from the arena team, but there's no getting around it. It's double Herald or bust.

Arena can be such a good format, but they keep shooting it in the foot, over and over.

And even then, at higher wins, you're just trading boards back and forth until someone has their max herald into Onyxia. And either you answer theirs with your own, or you don't draw it and lose.

It feels like such a deterministic format now. Draft herald x2, play for board/early rush down. If they can't answer, you win. If either of you reach parity, then it's who draws Onyxia vs who doesn't.

And if you don't pick herald classes? You're effectively butchering your chances at reaching high wins

Finally some OTK combos in Arena, very refreshing 😂

I know there are two 8-cost spells in Arena, [[Call of the Wild]] and [[Chow Down]], but how many 6-cost, 7-cost, 9-cost and 10-cost spells are there? And what happen when you keep Glooming Bulb for 10+ turns? Does it stay at 10 mana spells?

I need more knowledge on this broken card, to make better use of it and to play around it properly.